April 13, 2009

Tune in today as Jack Covert interviews David Dorsey about his book The Force. Both the book and the discussion are about the dramatic experience of spending a year with the Xerox sales force, where sales, presentation, acting, relationships, and business are all in the fold.
Dorsey's book is one of the books in Jack and Todd's book The 100 Best Business Books of All Time.

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We have just one more week until the launch of the book that brought InBubbleWrap back online--The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. Next week, you'll have a chance to win The 100 Best itself, with a few extras to sweeten that already delicious pot.
This week we are giving away The Force by David Dorsey.

In 1994, Dave Dorsey wrote a great book call The Force about the Xerox salesforce that he followed around for a year. The book is so good we included it in The 100 Best. He has written a short piece for us about what the parallels exists between what he wrote about in The Force and what he see going on today:
The current financial crisis brings back memories for me.

I just got an inquiry concerning shipping to another country and they were kind of disappointed to find out how much and how long it will take. Here are just some of my own personal Rules of Thumb to keep in mind when shipping overseas.
* Regular shipping time varies upon countries and customs may hold up boxes for an undertimed length of time, so if you need materials for a specific date, plan well in advance!

From Monday's WSJ:
Nancy Camarota, a customer-relations executive at Allied Waste Industries Inc. , said she thought it was odd when a Deloitte & Touche USA LLP consultant used an exclamation point in an email. 'Guys do not use exclamation points,' she thought.